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If I weren’t already booted off the Dragon Con press list for writing negative things about it back in 2009, I would be now thanks to this piece at NHS. I’ll sit back and wait for somebody to call me a “hipster” or to say that I’m generalizing/stereotyping. Maybe I’m just no longer tolerating the crap that you have to put up with when you’re around thousands of “pop culture” addicts. Maybe I’ve done a little growing up, maybe I’m just more of an asshole this year than last year. But my concept of being of fan of these things, enjoying these things, does not include using the creativity of others as a crutch with which to generate my identity. I love all that stuff dearly, always have and always will. This doesn’t mean I suddenly don’t love games, that I’m going to stop reading comics or watching Doctor Who.

Something about this subculture of consumption draws the literally unwashed masses like flies to shit. I’ve had it with the lack of taste, class dignity that most- but not all- gamers and fans of all descriptions display.

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I don’t want to be associated with “geeks” or “nerds” anymore because those terms just indicate people that watch a lot of TV or play a lot of games. I want nothing to do with people defined by the media they consume. I hereby declare that I’m over any and all kinds of “fandom”- including the whole gamer subset. It’s time for my annual Dragon Con post mortem. This week, Friday Freakout comes a day early!

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